Vithoba : How is it possible to remain steadfast without regularly imbibing any practice? The sense of doership is very difficult to eradicate, it is not that easily wiped out.
Jnaneshwar : Holding a lamp in your hand, can you request the darkness to stay back for a little while?
Holding a cat in your hand, can you ask the parrot to entertain you with its prattle? Similarly,
knowing fully well that the body, world, deities etc. are unreal, can you experience the Maya?
When a disciple realizes without a trace of
doubt that all existences are mere appearances without substance, can he continue with his practices?
Be it Samsara or Sannyasa, birth or death, bondage or liberation, it has no meaning to him.
Can such a person be infatuated by the Grand Illusion?
Can he ever be affected by ignorance?
Just as the eyes of a dead goat, though wide-open, does not have the power to see, even so an enlightened person whose mind is dead is not affected when he interacts in the world like any other person.
Please contemplate on what I have said.
-Extract from the conversation between Sant Jnaneshwar and his father, Vithoba.
Maha Bhakta Vijayam By Nabaji Siddha"Jnaneshwar Brings His Father Back to the Society"
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